David Cassidy on the Web
Onetime teenage idol Cassidy finds his niche
February 9, 2001
By Donnie Snow
www.gomemphis.com
Once the ultimate bubble-gum music star, David Cassidy left his Partridge Family polyester shirts behind and embarked on a career that has included Broadway, Beach Boys and Vegas. David Cassidy is the bubble by which to judge all bubble-gum teen sensations.
From Partridge Family cheese to Las Vegas show king, David Cassidy is still the biggest bubble in the pack.
It's been years since he sang to record-breaking crowds in the 1970s, but after taking most of the '80s off, Keith Partridge finally found his place in the world, showered in the Vegas lights.
No more ruffled shirts or plum bell bottoms for this guy, no. No more feathered bangs and shirtless magazine covers.
Cassidy, who has actually achieved much of the respect he longed for from the music industry which wouldn't return his calls at one point, is now one of the brightest stars in Las Vegas.
But then that's not a lot for a guy who once boasted a fan club larger than Elvis.
Thanks to a deal with Harrah's, Cassidy is back where he loves to be, hustling a concert tour.
So as not to disappoint fans salivating over his wealth of material, Cassidy will sing anything. Cassidy's Web site even asks which era of songs fans want to hear most.
Leaving a Broadway musical career the likes of which Debbie Gibson would covet must have been hard. Let's not forget he starred in a long-running revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and took over for Michael Crawford in the high-tech musical EFX.
That said, Cassidy does have musical merits that don't in-clude funny costumes.
He collaborated with Brian Wilson on Cruise To Harlem, Beach Boys Carl Wilson and Bruce Johnson sing back-up on David's version of I Write The Songs, which predates Barry Manilow's hit, and his recording of Get It Up For Your Love was banned on American and British radio.
Cassidy could be one hit and a decent prison sentence away from becoming an icon.
